To say some people are being ridiculously hysterical?

[YoyoYOO]

It's a serious situation, of course it is and I understand the need to slow the spread. And I understand why those at particularly high risk would be extra careful.

But honestly, some of the threads on here at the moment. It is just a constant, endless circle of people slagging off their friends or family for some perceived flouting of THE RULES, panicking and losing sleep because you're not sure if you disinfected your Amazon parcel well enough, quarantining a carton of milk for 72hrs, being called a serial killer because you sat down on some grass for 10 minutes after going for a run, stopping to talk to a family member out the window after your supermarket trip is akin to the worst crime known to man.

I've never ever read or witnessed such mass hysteria before. AIBU to think that some people are going absolutely crazy?

Considering about half an MN has diagnosed anxiety (it really feels like it) I do think there is no surprise in reading about posters losing sleep over non quarantined parcel or as pp gave an example of plastic on a ground. It's not that long ago there was discussion about people overreacting to their doorbell ringing or knock on the door...
It's not hurting anyone. If people want to quarantine their mail, they can quarantine their mail and if it makes them feel better, as they are not doing any harm, they shouldn't be sniggered at for it.

Half the threads on here are normally people slagging off friends and family

Yeah it's not usually because the OP has unilaterally decided that what that person has left their own house for is absolutely non essential / they've been out too often that week.

There's been threads on here from people who've actually watched their neighbours go out more than once. Someone actually put #SerialKiller on a thread this morning. Just ridiculous.

@AdoptAdaptImprove - Where do you get the figure that annual death from flu is around 2000? I read it was 17,000 last year and 13,000 the year before in a number of sources.

I couldn’t agree more, OP. There’s one thing acknowledging the awful reality of this pandemic, but the weird ways people are behaving and spitting their vitriol at family, friends and neighbours is alarming.

Considering about half an MN has diagnosed anxiety (it really feels like it)

Severe anxiety - and it's more like 90%

YANBU at all!

Some people seem to delight in making lockdown as hideous as possible and are annoyed at others not doing it right. The bleaching of shopping is insane for people who are young, no underlying conditions and have noone in their household with a higher risk. (I particularly find it annoying by those doing it who I know deliberately exposed their DCs to chickenpox as toddlers to "get it out of the way before school".)

That said, I've decided this would be the worse point to be exposed to it- there's talk the UK lockdown will start to be lifted in around another 2 -3 weeks.

Can you imagine if they do a temporary lifting and you could go get your upper lip waxed/actually get rid of that pile of crap to the tip/meet your friend at a coffee shop, except you got an Amazon delivery on Friday this week, 2 weeks later started with a high temp, and your household was in the 14 day lockdown when everyone else got to go out and have fun?

The only thing more tedious than mass hysteria is the constant flow of threads complaining about mass hysteria.

I agree to an extent although of course it is serious. Can I just say about the point of people being abandoned in nursing homes though- the average life expectancy when moving to a nursing home is only 6 months. People generally go there until ‘the end’. These people generally have DNAR and treatment limitation plans in place so as long as they are kept comfortable and families supported (which they are arguably better than in hospital) staying there to die would be far nicer IMO (I’m a nurse)x

Meant . Not x!

My aunt died from the virus two weeks ago, but I'm still not going to wash my shopping, then leave it in the garage for a year, or report my neighbours because they have left their home more than once this month.

It's understandable to be scared in the face of something before unseen and unheard of, but there are people literally tipping over the edge into hysteria, and it does seem to be catching.

This is how I imagine a lot of people on here discussing their families,friends, neighbours movements for the week.

Well either we are on lockdown or we are not - and it's not exactly a hard lockdown. It's hardly being hysterical to disagree with people who think the rules don't apply to them.

The casual attitude does remind me of the idiots who ignore the no swimming rule, sharks because they know better. Then sob hysterically for others to risk their lives to save them when they do meet a shark, and start to lose chunks of their bodies.

There are always these who think they are superior, know better, and are immune to anything - plus don't care about anyone else. MN seems to be full of them.

YANBU at all. I totally agree. The hysteria and mouth frothing on here is astounding. But yes, we will be in a minority.

The only thing more tedious than mass hysteria is the constant flow of threads complaining about mass hysteria.

Yep.
The same old jibes

Reference the comments about care homes , what do you suggest the government does ? Send the patients to hospital where covoid 19 is rife .? Make carers live in away from their families ? No room? Test all the residents? And then what ? Even when they are isolated in their rooms then the carers have to physically care for them .

No one who dies at home at the moment from covoid 19 is recorded so they are not discriminating.

If you are suggesting swab testing staff if they have symptoms , then that is too late because they could have been spreading the virus for days before .

Btw I have just lost a relative in a care home and I am genuinely interested in what you think the government could do ?

The care staff did have PPE btw .

the constant flow of threads complaining about mass hysteria

Where? I've seen far more hysterical threads than I've seen threads pointing out the hysteria.

Fully agree with you OP 👍

Perhaps some people just need a release for the anxieties and frustrations they're experiencing and would prefer to do that with the anonymity a forum provides.

FFS. This again?

MamaBearLockdown, that's exactly it. We're not on lockdown. We're not supposed to be on lockdown, we're social distancing.

Some people want to police a lockdown but that's not what we're being asked to do by those in authority, only by hysterical elements of the public.

Totally agree.
I said before that trained psychiatrists in practice are going to have a whole new client base after this based on anxiety issues.

Washing hands in diluted bleach. Food being wiped down.
It wasn't 6 months ago we were trying to advocate reducing waste and using wipes.

YANBU but you will get slaughtered for having the view.
The curtain twitchers are out in full force..

YANBU. After reading some of the threads talking about Brexit, I used to think how the hell would some people manage in a real crisis. And now we have this.

YADNBU. People have gone so weird.

I was called irresponsible for quoting the actual law on here the other day 😂

And yes. It’s fine for people to bleach their plums if they choose too, but it’s them that are yelling irresponsible At you if you don’t.

There are also the people who are keeping their dc off school forever as they “care about their health unlike you, you uncaring child murderess!” Coupled with comments about how of course they don’t use the school to dump their DCs on for childcare...

So, well said OP

I think it's mainly visible because the middle people disappeared. Now you either have people calling others idiots for either cleaning too much or cleaning too little. The middle people who were using common sense are quiet because they get called frothing bastards by both sides. Can't win.

Oh ffs. Who posted that 2000 people die from flu a year.
Absolute bullshit.

fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-compare-influenza/

UK on average 17000 a year. Although this varies alot year on year.

The US 12-61000 people die annually from flu.

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-flu-reports

Interesting reports here for you to peruse at leisure.
I've attached a graph which shows death rates attributed to flu from 2014-2018.

It's not 2000 stop scaremongering and go look up so bloody facts.